Avozilla: Australia, prepare for the biggest avocado you have ever seen

It’s five times the size of your regular avocado, weighing in at as much as 1.8 kilograms, and is said to be just as delicious as its teeny-tiny counterparts.

Ladies and gentlemen of Australia, we present: Avozilla.

The avocado variety, which originated in South Africa, is actually known as ‘Post Office’. But seeing as that’s about as interesting as, well, a post office, it’s received the new, far more fitting moniker.

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“There is a nursery we buy different trees off and when we were planting a bunch of avocados ten years ago they gave us one as a trial,” farmer Ian Groves told Guardian Australia.

“And after about four or five years, we tried a few of the fruit and thought we’d give them a go. So we planted a small block of about just under 400 trees. They’re coming up to about four years and this is their first production.”

As for when we can expect the monster fruit to flood our supermarkets and cafe scene – who doesn’t want to read ‘smashed Avozilla’ on their breakfast menu? – it seems that could be quite a way off.

The Groves family are well ahead of the market, which is tightly controlled by the South African company that owns the rights to this particular avocado. This means the company decides who is allowed to grow it and receives royalties from the farms they license it to.

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Don Segua

Saturday 14 July 2018

Sad, sad beyond words. I have already heard about big things in australia, big vegetables and many many other big stuff in your beautiful, lucky and blessed country. But you are not alone my friends, we the chilean people are in solidarity with you. We are going to send you some ships loaded with chilean suppositories to ease your pain.